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![[image loading]](http://img545.imageshack.us/img545/1246/krzotaclogo.jpg)
 Zotac Team Invitational Season 2
2011 Jan 12th - 31st / 2011 1월 12일 - 1월 31일
10.000.000 ₩
Format: The participants of the Zotac Team Invitational Season 2 are the 8 members of the Starcraft 2 conference, along with Lim Yo Hwan's team, SlayerS. The regular season consists of each team playing every other team once. In the end, during Post Season Period, 4 teams will enter the playoff. The first map of each match is known beforehand. Coaches choose which player to send out first without knowing who the other team will send. Following the All-Kill format, the winner stays on, and the coach of the team who lost the previous map chooses both the new map, and which player to send out to fight on it. Generally, there are two matches each day, except for the first and last days of the regular season, in which there are four matches. The finals will be held in and streamed from the GOM-TV studio.
Participating / invited teams:
- ZeNEX
- MvP
- SlayerS
- STARTALE
- fOu
- Prime.WE
- TSL
- oGs-TL
- IM
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wow MKP reversed all-killed ogs o_O
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any TL member want to comment why they aren't chosen to play (if they even want to play)?
also many allteam kills Oo
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Thanks for the info.
I'd suggest IM start using mvp and NesTea if they want to actually win a game...
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United States7481 Posts
I set up a wiki page for this earlier today, Zotac Team Invitational Season 2. Have a few more in-depth stats on the front page, as well as an upcoming schedule. Check it out and suggest improvements~
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oh wow there are so many great players who are not in GSL yet. Huk and co has a tough road ahead to qualify it seems.
People like NEXPuzzle, STBomber , TalesMVP
( or are they people we know on AKAs?)
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so no one on TL has played for oGs-TL yet? 
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On January 18 2011 16:58 alphafuzard wrote:so no one on TL has played for oGs-TL yet?
That's why the team is called oGs-TL. ^^ </sarcasm>
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United Kingdom38156 Posts
Bomber holding it down for ST =)
Choya coming through in the clutch for fOu lately too :O
Sucks that IM don't have either of their 2 best players playing heh
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cause in reality the team is oGs.... The TL part was added just for us here. No chance for TL guys to play sadly
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Marine king is so damn impressive.. SlayerS is doing alot better than i thought it would.. So surprising to see IM on the bottom and oGs near there as well.. They are meant to be the most dominant teams in the scene; guess no MVP and no Nestea makes a big deal hehe
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Who on God's green earth is NEXPuzzle??? All-killing oGs (Ensnare/Hyperdub/MC/Cezanne), what the....really? Genius with new ID?
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thanks for this thread, was disappointed when looking thru the lists and seen no Liquid guys have participated
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Looks like all the teams in korea are rather even... no team is seriously dominating the other.
I think IM would clean house if they sent MVP and Nestea though
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On January 18 2011 17:38 Frankon wrote:
cause in reality the team is oGs.... The TL part was added just for us here. No chance for TL guys to play sadly
Lol, not true. TheWind asked Huk to play but both him and Ret have been sick all week. Im waking up too late to even play, because Im in GSL practice mode.
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On January 18 2011 22:39 Liquid`Jinro wrote:Show nested quote +On January 18 2011 17:38 Frankon wrote:
cause in reality the team is oGs.... The TL part was added just for us here. No chance for TL guys to play sadly Lol, not true. TheWind asked Huk to play but both him and Ret have been sick all week. Im waking up too late to even play, because Im in GSL practice mode.
Shame about those two. I hope they get better real soon!
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On January 18 2011 22:39 Liquid`Jinro wrote:Show nested quote +On January 18 2011 17:38 Frankon wrote:
cause in reality the team is oGs.... The TL part was added just for us here. No chance for TL guys to play sadly Lol, not true. TheWind asked Huk to play but both him and Ret have been sick all week. Im waking up too late to even play, because Im in GSL practice mode.
Ouch that sucks, hope it's not serious enough that its going to affect practice for the Code B prelims/Code A up and down matches for them
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Probably worth noting, ST_Xanadu is  GuemChi.
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is there a stream?
where can i watch vods?
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I don't see what the big deal about TL not having played in a few yet is. MC Top Ensnare and Zenio are all at the level of the TL guys, maybe Jinro is up at the MC/Zenio level moreso, but no need to sasume they're being shut out, its just variance.
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On January 18 2011 22:39 Liquid`Jinro wrote:Show nested quote +On January 18 2011 17:38 Frankon wrote:
cause in reality the team is oGs.... The TL part was added just for us here. No chance for TL guys to play sadly Lol, not true. TheWind asked Huk to play but both him and Ret have been sick all week. Im waking up too late to even play, because Im in GSL practice mode.
glad to hear that
ohm, i mean im not glad they are sick but.. you know...
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On January 18 2011 22:39 Liquid`Jinro wrote:Show nested quote +On January 18 2011 17:38 Frankon wrote:
cause in reality the team is oGs.... The TL part was added just for us here. No chance for TL guys to play sadly Lol, not true. TheWind asked Huk to play but both him and Ret have been sick all week. Im waking up too late to even play, because Im in GSL practice mode.
Awesome to know the teams really are close in that sense.. sucks that HuK and Ret have been sick :/ would have been so damn amazing to see an all-kill from one of them haha!
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On January 19 2011 03:16 p4NDemik wrote:Probably worth noting, ST_Xanadu is GuemChi.
Can't wait to see what Gchizzle can do with practice.
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So many unexpected results and new players! I hope to see some of these guys in the next code A.
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apparently a match tonight between tsl-Clide and ZeNEX-Taeja went 1 hour and 20 minutes
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IM beat MvP 4-2, other match is still going on due to that super-long match
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Hope to see some TeamLiquid members thrown out there. I'm quite confident they would dominate 
oGs-TL Hwaiting!!!
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ok so i have tonight's results, but first I am going to confirm that there are no VODs of any of these matches and no plans to offer them, however the Finals will be cast on the Korean GomTV site and vods will be available for that match.
IM vs MvP
Losira > Tails[ on Blistering Sands
Losira > Odin on Delta Quadrant
Losira < Cute on Lost Temple
Yoda < Cute on Metalopolis
YongHwa > Cute on Xel'Naga Caverns
YongHwa > Keen on Shakuras Plateau
TSL vs ZeNEX
Clide vs. Taeja on Metalopolis
Clide vs. Puzzle on Xel'Naga Caverns
aLive vs. Puzzle on Delta Quadrant
aLive vs. ON on Blistering Sands
aLive vs. Bleach on Lost Temple
Killer vs. Bleach on Shakuras Plateau
Trickster vs. Bleach on Scrap Station
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Instead of NEXExcrement/Bleach I wrote NEXByung, because that's what he is called in the current GSL Code A season
[Artosis]Antooiiinne, why are you so good and why are you faster than me?[/Artosis]
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Since my question sadly went unnoticed, I'll give it another shot: does anybody know who NEXPuzzle is? NEXGenius with new ID?
He frickin all-killed oGs, I think this deserves some attention if he is a "new" player?
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Nope, it's someone else. Genius = Jung Min Soo, Puzzle = Kim Sang Jun
Here is his Bnet profile
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United States7481 Posts
slayers 4-2 oGs-TL and prime.we 4-1 IM
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Did they stream this live? And if yes, when did the games take place?
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On January 19 2011 19:30 sleepingdog wrote:
Since my question sadly went unnoticed, I'll give it another shot: does anybody know who NEXPuzzle is? NEXGenius with new ID?
He frickin all-killed oGs, I think this deserves some attention if he is a "new" player?
Puzzle is a former BW progamer, who is just turning in results in SC2. Not the same person as NEXGenius, and new to SC2 though not entirely new to the progaming scene as a whole.
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What the heck why have I not heard of this before now?
And where did this MvP team come from?
And why are top teams getting trashed?
And how is ZeNex winning?
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Slayers is doing really well, wow. We've barely heard of any of these players. And yeah, so is ZeNex.
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Again: At which time the games will be streamed each day?
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the Emperor working his magic again??? Expected SlayerS to be the ACE of this league but they are more than holding their own.
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At least SlayerS has Ryung now, he seems like quite a decent player.
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On January 23 2011 04:57 Miragee wrote:
Again: At which time the games will be streamed each day?
There are no streams of anything until the finals. The games generally start at around 12:00pm or 1:00 pm KST if i'm not mistaken, but I'm not sure if the finals will be the same.
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i wonder which slayers guy will be the next oov
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On January 18 2011 22:39 Liquid`Jinro wrote:Show nested quote +On January 18 2011 17:38 Frankon wrote:
cause in reality the team is oGs.... The TL part was added just for us here. No chance for TL guys to play sadly Lol, not true. TheWind asked Huk to play but both him and Ret have been sick all week. Im waking up too late to even play, because Im in GSL practice mode.
Dah, I wish they weren't sick. I would love to see them play some games.
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are replays available for this?
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There are no replays available. We could ask HukRetHayproJinro whether oGs have some replays of their games, but I doubt that A) the Zotac tournament-orga allows it and B) the players themselves want them published.
Remember at least the finals will be streamed on GOMTV.
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It's quite surprising that the teams doing well in GSL are doing poorly in this tournament and vice versa. Slayers is in first place despite only having Boxer in Code S and IM is in last place. Of course if IM actually sent out Nestea and MVP they'd probably be dominating but for whatever reason they aren't. What's more surprising is that OGS-TL's mediocre results despite sending out their top players regularly.
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red4ce a bit something like Bw proleague sometimes happens.
ANd, where can I watch something of this OMG!!??
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Holy shit SlayerS are raping the field o_o
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SlayerSBoxeR talent scouting is very nice :O
Unexpected that SlayerS team is doing really well. Very good for BoxeR as he can practice better then. Hopefully we'll hear more of his team in code A.
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On January 22 2011 23:07 Phayt wrote:
What the heck why have I not heard of this before now?
And where did this MvP team come from?
And why are top teams getting trashed?
And how is ZeNex winning?
I think it's pretty important to see who is actually playing, although some of the top names did lose (like MK and MC occasionally), many of the matches were played during GSL4 itself and the lineups were not the ones in competition (i.e. IM has never played mvp or Nestea). Still, oGs doing that poorly is kind of a surprise.
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so only finals will be on Gomtv eh. i hope all of their superstars play. so it will be @ end of Jan. i guess will be after GSL season 1 ?
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WOAH so many matches. Interesting to see that the playing field is alot more level than it might seem. Can't believe I only found out about this now ^^
The standings are pretty interesting, I doubt anyone would've predicted the teams currently at the top 4...
Guess I should spoiler my thoughts...
+ Show Spoiler +So I'm sure everyone expected almost the entire standing table to be reversed (bar MvP). It is certainly a bit of a shock to see IM right at the bottom, considering they were 2/4 of the GSL4 semi-finals. I guess it's to be expected considering NesTea and mvp aren't playing. One wonders where the team would be if they were playing their strongest players.
It's good to see some of the smaller teams doing well though, shows that there are lots of up and coming players ^^
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can anybody give us an update or breakdown of the current SlayerS team? Dunno if people who follow the korean websites have greater insights about their players.
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Wow Slayers team is really impressive man. Also disappointed about IM, where the heck is NestTea and MVP ?
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I was rooting for TSL with this. Not sure if they can get in 4th still. Depressing. oGs-TL is doing decent though. I'm glad.
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On January 26 2011 08:37 amazingoopah wrote:
can anybody give us an update or breakdown of the current SlayerS team? Dunno if people who follow the korean websites have greater insights about their players.
Well, for Ryung specifically, is usually high on the Top 200, finished Top 8 in Gainward (through long single eliminations and beat Kyrix, Rainbow in Bo3s), and used to be on Prime.
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interesting
the top 3 teams we expect are in the bottom LOL
some aren't even playing seriously just to prepare for GSL
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well obviously when nestea and mvp are in the gsl, they won't play in this team league. but i see nestea in there already after losing in the gsl, so presumably mvp would play for im too when the gsl is over.
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slayersboxer only played once for his own team yet...
Well I think they don't take this tournament too serious... GSL is far more important...
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Tonight IM busted out one of their big guns in MVP but it wasn't enough, as Puzzle performed an all-kill and ZeNEX won 4-1. oGs-TL pulled out a tight one against fOu, which they needed to do to hold on to a chance at the playoffs, and Startale rolled over MvP 4-1.
After tonight's games, SlayerS, ZeNEX, and Startale have clinched the top 3 spots, and their games tomorrow will determine who finishes first and who finishes 2nd. On the other end of the spectrum, IM and MvP have been eliminated from playoff contention. The four who are left to battle it out over the last spot are the following.
oGs-TL 4-4 (0) - they have completed their matches, so they have to await tomorrow's results.
TSL 3-4 (-2) & Prime.WE 3-4 (-2) - these two teams play each other tomorrow. If it's a 4-3 game, both miss the playoffs. If it's 4-2, the winner of the series goes to tiebreaker against oGs-TL. Assuming this goes by head to head record, oGs-TL would hold the tiebreaker against TSL and Prime.WE would hold the tiebreaker over oGs-TL. This means that in order to pass oGs-TL for the playoffs, TSL needs to win 4-1 or 4-0, and Prime.WE needs to win 4-2 or better. However, we still haven't counted the last team.
fOu 3-4 (-3) will finish out the playoff scenarios. fOu, with their poor differential and the fact that they just lost to oGs-TL, needs to go 4-0 to pass oGs-TL. If they do anything worse than 4-0, they will be eliminated. Because they are 1 game differential behind TSL, and TSL beat fOu head to head, if TSL wins 4-1 or 4-0 tomorrow they will advance to the playoffs no matter what fOu does. Finally, if fOu goes 4-0, Prime.WE needs to win 4-0 to go to the playoffs, because they lost to fOu head to head.
I just realized there's 1 more situation: fOu goes 4-1 and prime.WE goes 4-2, which would cause a 3-way tie between them and oGs. No idea how that tie would be broken.
I hope I didn't leave anybody more confused than they were before they read this.
oh yeah this is all assuming no penalty points for any teams. as far as I know TSL has 2 warnings and fOu has 1 warning, but neither have any actual penalty points. If they do, that changes things, obviously.
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I added the warnings to the standings.
I think the warnings are actually penalties? I'm not sure. It's a bit stupid to give out penalties for chatting ingame. Sounds like Kespa-slavery.
S2con released a statement about a 3-way-tie situation today: Team with penalty points are considered last in such a tie.
I'm not sure. It raises hope for oGs-TL, but they still rely on specific results.
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Why is bomber so good and elogiated in other tourneys and not doing good on gsl /
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in that case zere I think a 3-way tie would eliminate TSL and go to a 2-way tie where prime.we has the tiebreaker over oGs-TL.
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didnt think that slayers were so strong. Nice.
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who is this Nex Puzzle dude. Lol.
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Where can I watch vods or replays and have piece of the action? ;d
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From what I can tell, TSL won 4-1 so they advance. Will know for certain once full results are released, I'm just going by twitter
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Wow, NexPuzzle is playing like a fucking master
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On January 27 2011 13:18 Antoine wrote:
From what I can tell, TSL won 4-1 so they advance. Will know for certain once full results are released, I'm just going by twitter
YES YES YES YES YES! Glad TSL advanced. I'm a fan!
Edit - Looking out for puzzle though. Damn that's some good all kills.
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Wow this nexpuzzle guy seems good
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On January 27 2011 14:30 bkrow wrote:Thanks for all the indepth updates Antoine.. super appreciated so oGs/TL just making the cut ay. i hope they pull out some awesomeness and destroy the playoffs! Very surprised that SlayerS is sitting on top after reading all the teams involved, i was not expecting that at all LOoking forwrad to see who takes this... P.S. Puzzle all killing IM.. wow :O
I'm sorry to tell you that oGs-TL just barely missed the playoffs in fact. TSL needed to beat Prime.WE 4-1 or better to clinch their spot in the playoffs, and thanks to a Killer all-kill, that's exactly what they did. In the other matches, MvP beat SlayerS 4-1, Startale beat ZeNEX 4-2, and everyone's favorite Random korean,  GuMiho, had an all-kill (weirdly enough randoming a mirror in all 4) to carry fOu to a 4-2 victory over IM.
The first round matchups will be:
STARTALE vs TSL (1st map: Metalopolis)
ZeNex vs SlayerS (1st map: Metalopolis)
As a side note, the ZeNEX-SlayerS matchup will be a preview of the GSTL, since they are also meeting in the first round in that tournament.
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Both Startale vs TSL and ZeNex vs SlayerS was close during the regular season play (4-3 for both). These are going to be great matches. Hope TSL wins.
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The top two players so far didn't have Liquipedia pages. I've created pages for Puzzle and Bomber. Definitely would appreciate some contributions for people who know more about these players!
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Antooiiiiine why are you so good with twitter?
And wow Bleach/Byun really is on a killing spree since he entered Code A. Except Boxer, I'm not sure who else SlayerS could have put against him.
We will now probably see another Bomber vs. Puzzle shakedown, can't wait for watching that
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Team EG needs to be involved!
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are there any VODS of this??
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Team oGs-TL but none of the TL guys played even one game.
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Really hoping Bomber gets to play in some Code A next season.
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On January 29 2011 01:20 PartyBiscuit wrote:
Really hoping Bomber gets to play in some Code A next season.
Hard to imagine him not qualifying with the level of play he seems to show (providing the format isn't bo1 and he has a bad game or something lol).
Thanks for all the colourful updates Antoine, it's been interesting to follow along even if we can't watch ^^
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Who is this TSL_puzzle child. He beat a ridiculous amount of top level players, surprised I've never heard him in the gsl or like.
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ZeNexByun tearing it up, will be interesting to see how he does in Code S
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Only fOu Zergs have a winning record o_O (out of Zerg players)
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On January 29 2011 19:05 rarin wrote:
Who is this TSL_puzzle child. He beat a ridiculous amount of top level players, surprised I've never heard him in the gsl or like.
Neo.G_zerO from BW. Never played much but must have been a good amateur because he was a first overall draft pick for WeMade FOX.
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=99762¤tpage=5
Other first round picks that draft were Turn (now a Samsung A-teamer) and NEX_Byun (drafted by OZ but didn't play much)
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So...finals in 9 hours? Or am I wildly out ^^
Quite excited really hehe
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On January 31 2011 08:54 jalstar wrote:Show nested quote +On January 29 2011 19:05 rarin wrote:
Who is this TSL_puzzle child. He beat a ridiculous amount of top level players, surprised I've never heard him in the gsl or like. Neo.G_zerO from BW. Never played much but must have been a good amateur because he was a first overall draft pick for WeMade FOX. http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=99762¤tpage=5Other first round picks that draft were Turn (now a Samsung A-teamer) and NEX_Byun (drafted by OZ but didn't play much)
Wow, a lot of those guys have switched over, Ryung, Marine King, Lucky, and Squirtle.
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Isnt this today? GO GO GO!
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Can some one please send me RESTREAM? pm... thanks so much cant watch gom on macs.
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Didn't knew about that, gogogo Byun \o/
edit : ^ no english
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also no free stream by gom is there?
PS: you might wanna edit the posts with the stream link in it or it may be taken off air.
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hmmm stream loads up fine for me but then after ~1 minute it just goes black
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On January 31 2011 18:08 Polygamy wrote:
no English commentators
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No, this is true. :p
The stream has a very bad quality. :< But better than nothing.
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looks like first game is rainbow (t6, red) vs nexon (t12, blue) on metalopolis
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What's the first matchup?
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 RainbOw <Metalopolis> NEXON
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On January 31 2011 18:14 Arceus wrote:RainbOw <Metalopolis> NEXON
Cheers, whos blue and whos red?
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On January 31 2011 18:09 Ajunoo wrote:
also no free stream by gom is there?
PS: you might wanna edit the posts with the stream link in it or it may be taken off air.
As this is normaly reserved to korean audiance, I guess restreams are ok as they don't steal anything from gom. (just a guess but that seems right)
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On January 31 2011 18:09 Ajunoo wrote:
also no free stream by gom is there?
PS: you might wanna edit the posts with the stream link in it or it may be taken off air.
Yes there is, this is not a normal GOMTV cast so they are providing the HQ Korean stream for free to non koreans.
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On January 31 2011 18:15 Barundar wrote:Cheers, whos blue and whos red?
Nexon is blue, Rainbow is red.
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The stream is so lagged...
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rainbow why you so bad
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Ah free gomtv hq... nice! looking beautiful
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Love this, atleast i have some more Sc2 in the morning
Thanks for the stream GOM
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Damn, Rainbow is relentless with these attacks and drops
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Any suggestions for why the gomplayer doesn't want to play me the actual stream after I sit through the ads?
ed: lmao, I'm an idiot and trying to watch the korean version and not the one they provided for us xD
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every Terran game should end with a nuke :D!
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Damn Rainbow nukes 25-30 SCVs. GG.
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On January 31 2011 18:28 nRoot wrote:
epic nuke
That nuke HURT.
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nuke goes off and the ghost gets kills 28
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nuclear launch not detected :x
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oh god DAT NUKE. Oh man there's something about dem nukes
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Okay i take back my words, he got back my respect with that badass nuke 28 kills.
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ahh rainbow is still alive
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The game was over before that nuke, but despite that, I loved it hahah
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wow my stream died right at the nuke part
just my luck
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So nice to see team matches in sc2 as well.
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niice i didnt know this event is free hq stream on gom
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Frankly speaking, Zotac Team League is much much more exciting than GSL.
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On January 31 2011 18:32 Xeph wrote:
Frankly speaking, Zotac Team League is much much more exciting than GSL.
i seem to agree with you on that, that match was suprisingly good!
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On January 31 2011 18:30 s2pid_loser wrote:
niice i didnt know this event is free hq stream on gom
:O
omg, i wante more Zotac ^^ free HQ ftw!
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Is it just me or is the stream uberrr choppy? Sound phases out every 1-4 seconds
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On January 31 2011 18:32 Xeph wrote:
Frankly speaking, Zotac Team League is much much more exciting than GSL.
It would be awesome if we could get more of it streamed, I was far too interested in following text updates hehe.
I thought I heard Kim Sang Jun so I'm presuming this protoss is all-kill hero Puzzle
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uh oh its NEXPuzzle
and lol @ typical gretech failures
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derp, who is the terran puzzle is against?
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On January 31 2011 18:35 shaunnn wrote:
derp, who is the terran puzzle is against?
rainbow
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Vehicule of technology speech incoming xD
We have tasteless by phone who'll tell us everything about this.
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Bnet the true enemy of sc2 popularity haha
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is NEXPuzzle good or something?
never heard of him until i heard his name thrown around during the code a qualifiers
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We're detecting some lag off the starboard bow captain!
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On January 31 2011 18:36 s2pid_loser wrote:
is NEXPuzzle good or something?
never heard of him until i heard his name thrown around during the code a qualifiers
he's like #8 or something on KOR ladder
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On January 31 2011 18:36 s2pid_loser wrote:
is NEXPuzzle good or something?
never heard of him until i heard his name thrown around during the code a qualifiers
check his record on the first page
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Doesn't Blizzard give out/install "Tournament Editions" of sc2 for GSL? Don't recall seeing any epic timeouts a la mlg/reddit finals
Edit: Tournament editions having lan capability
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anyone knows why puzzle and bomber did not qualify for code A ( at least i didnt see their names). Did they participate at all even. Pretty weird considering their impressive record on team leagues.
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On January 31 2011 18:36 s2pid_loser wrote:
is NEXPuzzle good or something?
never heard of him until i heard his name thrown around during the code a qualifiers
He all killed both IM (MVP, Losira, YongHwa, Yoda,) & oGs (Ensnare, Hyperdub, MC, Cezanne)in this league and had the best player record with a total of 13-4
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They both participated. I think puzzle was knocked out in the final round by somebody
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On January 31 2011 18:38 dtz wrote:
anyone knows why puzzle and bomber did not qualify for code A ( at least i didnt see their names). Did they participate at all even. Pretty weird considering their impressive record on team leagues.
it has been said by a lot of players that sometimes shit happens during qualifiers. you can face sadzenith or choya, or you can suddenly face people like bitbybitprime who all in's 24/7.
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On January 31 2011 18:38 dtz wrote:
anyone knows why puzzle and bomber did not qualify for code A ( at least i didnt see their names). Did they participate at all even. Pretty weird considering their impressive record on team leagues.
Puzzle got knocked out by Losira during qualifications. Bomber also got knocked out by someone.
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Puzzle was knocked out by Losira (it's in Losira's interview), Bomber by one of the two SlayerS qualifiers. Bit of a shame because I wanted to see them both, but oh well, I know Losira is good and shall just hope the SlayerS guys are too.
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On January 31 2011 18:38 CuriousMoose wrote:
Doesn't Blizzard give out/install "Tournament Editions" of sc2 for GSL? Don't recall seeing any epic timeouts a la mlg/reddit finals
Edit: Tournament editions having lan capability
No
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On January 31 2011 18:38 dtz wrote:
anyone knows why puzzle and bomber did not qualify for code A ( at least i didnt see their names). Did they participate at all even. Pretty weird considering their impressive record on team leagues.
They were both eliminated
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Puzzle was knocked out by Losira IIRC
edit: slow
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Rainbows builds a refinery and puts no SCVs on it; goes for early expo.
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3gate robo expand from Puzzle. Tons of sentries out.
Puzzle's expansion up and running before Rainbow can float over his OC.
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On January 31 2011 18:41 Arccotangent wrote:
Rainbows builds a refinery and puts no SCVs on it; goes for early expo.
Looks like it was similar to zergs mining 100 gas for speed then pulling guys off.
he mined enough for the tech lab, pulled guys off gas until he could expand, then put them back on.
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On January 31 2011 18:44 cyprin wrote:Show nested quote +On January 31 2011 18:41 Arccotangent wrote:
Rainbows builds a refinery and puts no SCVs on it; goes for early expo. Looks like it was similar to zergs mining 100 gas for speed then pulling guys off. he mined enough for the tech lab, pulled guys off gas until he could expand, then put them back on.
Pretty standard way of getting the CC up a little quicker.
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Puzzle pushes with tons of sentries in addition to immortals and stalkers.
TONS of forcefields go down, but Rainbow holds.
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Rainbow should have sent those SCVs back earlier; he lost like 45 seconds of mining time on 10 SCVs.
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On January 31 2011 18:45 Telcontar wrote:Show nested quote +On January 31 2011 18:44 cyprin wrote:On January 31 2011 18:41 Arccotangent wrote:
Rainbows builds a refinery and puts no SCVs on it; goes for early expo. Looks like it was similar to zergs mining 100 gas for speed then pulling guys off. he mined enough for the tech lab, pulled guys off gas until he could expand, then put them back on. Pretty standard way of getting the CC up a little quicker.
Except why do you even need the early lab then? The only things you can use a lab for require more gas...
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Wow these korean commentators are really analytical. I love it!
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Puzzle pushes against Rainbow's PF at the gold. PF goes down after an intense battle.
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o.o
am i crazy or was that PF not in the right spot?
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Rainbow pushes out with MMM, vikings, and quite a few SCVs.
Puzzle only has four or five colossi and a handful of gateway units.
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Supply block is going to cost him
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Rainbow's army proves too strong and he smashes through Puzzle's forces and kills his gold.
Puzzle GGs.
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kind of hard to see but that looked like good micro by Rainbow
looked like he used SCVs to draw Collossi fire
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wow, Rainbow's smaller army rapes Puzzle's army >.<...
too many stalkers i guess
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On January 31 2011 18:50 cyprin wrote:
o.o
am i crazy or was that PF not in the right spot?
It wasn't at all xD
The length of time it took to take down that repaired PF really cost Puzzle imo, lost a lot of troops there
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Wait how did Rainbow stomp that, it looked like Puzzle's army was bigger
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those highfives look like Proleague
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man this team league looks dope, almost like sc1 proleague :D
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i think chargelots or some FF's were what was seriously lacking there
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someone needs to 6pool to ramp up the early game intensity, falling asleep on these games before things get interesting
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every scv or 2 soaked up 5 collosi lazors - cool idea but puzzle should have been targeting front row of infantry. Solid EMPs made colossi fall fast to vikings too
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On January 31 2011 18:53 shaunnn wrote:
i think chargelots or some FF's were what was seriously lacking there
Yeah, pure stalker colossi not very stable comp.
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Whoa, sc2 proleague?
My dick...
It's so hard.
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On January 31 2011 18:52 Zeroxk wrote:
Wait how did Rainbow stomp that, it looked like Puzzle's army was bigger
One well-placed EMP and he brought like 11 SCVs to fight with him. Overwhelmed the Collossi easily.
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I really hope they will find someone to do english casts of these. I love the format, reminds me of proleague
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On January 31 2011 18:55 Piski wrote:
I really hope they will find someone to do english casts of these. I love the format, reminds me of proleague
yea i cant believe they cast the shitty up and down matches and not these...
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On January 31 2011 18:55 Piski wrote:
I really hope they will find someone to do english casts of these. I love the format, reminds me of proleague
There's another team league next week, but I don't know if Tastosis are casting that
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On January 31 2011 18:53 shaunnn wrote:
i think chargelots or some FF's were what was seriously lacking there
Yes, even a bronze toss knows that as soon as the first colossus is out T will start massing vikings. It's a nobrainer to go towards HT with chargelots asap.
I can't believe I see such an obvious mistake at this level.
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Holy fuck, Rainbow laying the smackdown. That was a really good game.
On January 31 2011 18:57 Creem wrote:Show nested quote +On January 31 2011 18:53 shaunnn wrote:
i think chargelots or some FF's were what was seriously lacking there Yes, even a bronze toss knows that as soon as the first colossus is out T will start massing vikings. It's a nobrainer to go towards HT with chargelots asap. I can't believe I see such an obvious mistake at this level.
He didn't have time to tech up that much while taking an expansion. That attack came just as the expansion finished. There was no way he could have gotten chargelots and storm that quick, did you see how low his money was?
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Good move by Zenex to put a zerg against rainbow, it's his weakest matchup.
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On January 31 2011 18:55 Piski wrote:
I really hope they will find someone to do english casts of these. I love the format, reminds me of proleague
indeed, cant happen soon enough.
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First look at a new Code A player in Coca, hoping he deserves his position and puts on a good match here or we might start to look at a rainbow all kill lol ^^
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I saw this discussed on page 3 or so but didn't find an actual answer. What are the warnings for? Someone mentioned it might have been for talking while in a match?
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On January 31 2011 18:56 ccHaZaRd wrote:Show nested quote +On January 31 2011 18:55 Piski wrote:
I really hope they will find someone to do english casts of these. I love the format, reminds me of proleague yea i cant believe they cast the shitty up and down matches and not these...
I feel for you guys but I'm quite glad that I get to listen to the korean commentary. They're so different from how tastosis do it, it's very refreshing. Don't get me wrong, I love tastosis' frat bro style but these guys really have the game analysis down.
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We need some caster to stream a cast on top of the games, so we can circumvent Gomtvs korean only casting till they realize a lot of people would watch it....
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We'll have a team league next week, casted by tastosis.
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That viking play is just MEAN.
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New strat by rainbow: forever supply blocking your opponent at 50 supply.
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On January 31 2011 18:59 Telcontar wrote:Show nested quote +On January 31 2011 18:56 ccHaZaRd wrote:On January 31 2011 18:55 Piski wrote:
I really hope they will find someone to do english casts of these. I love the format, reminds me of proleague yea i cant believe they cast the shitty up and down matches and not these... I feel for you guys but I'm quite glad that I get to listen to the korean commentary. They're so different from how tastosis do it, it's very refreshing. Don't get me wrong, I love tastosis' frat bro style but these guys really have the game analysis down.
We don't speak el Korean...
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Rainbow does a drop at CoCa's nat but gets repelled by Hydra Roach.
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wow so smart going hydras
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lol@ picking up vikings in medivacs.
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I don't think I've seen hydras in ZvT since rainbow vs FD in GSL1 haha
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On January 31 2011 19:02 sob3k wrote:Show nested quote +On January 31 2011 18:59 Telcontar wrote:On January 31 2011 18:56 ccHaZaRd wrote:On January 31 2011 18:55 Piski wrote:
I really hope they will find someone to do english casts of these. I love the format, reminds me of proleague yea i cant believe they cast the shitty up and down matches and not these... I feel for you guys but I'm quite glad that I get to listen to the korean commentary. They're so different from how tastosis do it, it's very refreshing. Don't get me wrong, I love tastosis' frat bro style but these guys really have the game analysis down. We don't speak el Korean...
That's why I said I feel for you guys. I was just giving my personal opinion.
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I loved the viking loading into a dropship to escape, that was epic
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I really like this how he's hunting overlords so aggressively with vikings.
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Rainbow's vikings keep CoCa's hydras running around as he snipes overlords all over the place, including inside CoCa's main.
Rainbow takes the island.
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This Overlordsniping viking taskforce is brutal
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lol Rainbow played cute with Vikings and Zerg eventually just went and killed him
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holy shit zerg manages a timing attack through the rocks and Rainbow GGs
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LOL. I'ma harass, then harass, then harass, then double expand, then get rolled.
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haha, coca looks so happy with that smile of his
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Were they just showing coca how to open the door lol
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Haha Coca just went and fucking killed him =p
Bust on the bunkers and rainbow didn't have a whole lot there to defend after his double expo xD
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On January 31 2011 19:06 udgnim wrote:
lol Rainbow played cute with Vikings and Zerg eventually just went and killed him
That and he tried to double expand. Good of Coca to notice how Rainbow's army was pretty damn small and just kill him.
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Oh god, the stream disconnects during the big battle, I reconnect instantly and Coco is giving high-fives to his teammates. How anticlimactic.
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Coca dude is so happy to win his 1st tv match
cant believe he doesnt even have a computer at home
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wow
never seen hydras used that well zvt
but then again, i havent seen that kind of viking use either haha
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thats very nice final so far
gg gj gogo
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ST_Bomber up!
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On January 31 2011 19:07 Arceus wrote:
Coca dude is so happy to win his 1st tv match
cant believe he doesnt even have a computer at home
Oh he's the one who has to play exclusively at PC Bangs since his parents wouldn't let him be in a team house yet? Pretty impressive he's that good with that kind of practice environment.
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Hell yeah, go Bomber!
Bomber hwaiting!
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ST_Bomber + Lost Temple = HELL
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Whats prize money for this? Anyone know?
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On January 31 2011 19:11 mindspike wrote:
Whats prize money for this? Anyone know?
it's int he main thread isn't it ?
10,000,000 krn won
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i could swear i just saw ken watanabe and chow yun fat in the same movie in that commercial, anyone catch the name of that?
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There are a lot of American movies in Korea!
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On January 31 2011 19:13 Kokujin wrote:
i could swear i just saw ken watanabe and chow yun fat in the same movie in that commercial, anyone catch the name of that?
Shanghai I think.
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how long between matches typically?
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ST got alot of good players wow
i didnt even know that
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In the brackets it says oGs-TL. Can liquid players play for oGs team in this?
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Interesting OGS is listed as OGS-TL in GSTL. Does that mean we could see some Jinro action in GSTL?
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On January 31 2011 19:19 scion wrote:
In the brackets it says oGs-TL. Can liquid players play for oGs team in this?
They were eligible, both Ret and Huk were ill or something though and Jinro was probably focused on the GSL.
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Cross positions on LT, so no nasty rushing!
Just cliff dropping <_<
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lol scion i bet you were as excited as me when you read that hahaha
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On January 31 2011 19:19 scion wrote:
In the brackets it says oGs-TL. Can liquid players play for oGs team in this? From what I understand they are included in oGs lineup, so yes they can. Though as far as I know none of them played in this tournament.
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On January 31 2011 19:21 Mise wrote:Show nested quote +On January 31 2011 19:19 scion wrote:
In the brackets it says oGs-TL. Can liquid players play for oGs team in this? From what I understand they are included in oGs lineup, so yes they can. Though as far as I know none of them played in this tournament.
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On January 31 2011 19:22 altered wrote:Show nested quote +On January 31 2011 19:21 Mise wrote:On January 31 2011 19:19 scion wrote:
In the brackets it says oGs-TL. Can liquid players play for oGs team in this? From what I understand they are included in oGs lineup, so yes they can. Though as far as I know none of them played in this tournament. makes me sad
I heard that at one point a few of them, notably HuK, were offered a chance to play.
Unfortunately, they declined, with HuK's excuse being that he was sick.
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Ugh the stream is disconnecting every one to two minutes, anyone else having this problem?
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On January 31 2011 19:23 GP wrote:
Ugh the stream is disconnecting every one to two minutes, anyone else having this problem?
Yes sadly, it was fine for me earlier
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On January 31 2011 19:23 GP wrote:
Ugh the stream is disconnecting every one to two minutes, anyone else having this problem?
had this problem too some minutes ago, but now it works fine again
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On January 31 2011 19:23 eviltomahawk wrote:Show nested quote +On January 31 2011 19:22 altered wrote:On January 31 2011 19:21 Mise wrote:On January 31 2011 19:19 scion wrote:
In the brackets it says oGs-TL. Can liquid players play for oGs team in this? From what I understand they are included in oGs lineup, so yes they can. Though as far as I know none of them played in this tournament. makes me sad I heard that at one point a few of them, notably HuK, were offered a chance to play. Unfortunately, they declined, with HuK's excuse being that he was sick.
Huk said both he and Ret had the flu bad. What is it with white people perpetually getting sick in Korea? Tastosis is sick every other night of the GSL I swear.
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On January 31 2011 19:23 eviltomahawk wrote:Show nested quote +On January 31 2011 19:22 altered wrote:On January 31 2011 19:21 Mise wrote:On January 31 2011 19:19 scion wrote:
In the brackets it says oGs-TL. Can liquid players play for oGs team in this? From what I understand they are included in oGs lineup, so yes they can. Though as far as I know none of them played in this tournament. makes me sad I heard that at one point a few of them, notably HuK, were offered a chance to play. Unfortunately, they declined, with HuK's excuse being that he was sick.
Here is the statement from Jinro:
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=185374¤tpage=2#23
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Haha the good old 10 reactored raxes xD
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all ling defense worked better than I expected
+1 melee obviously helped
this Zerg has 0 creep spread and does he have a baneling nest?
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Nice defense by Coca. Wasn't sure if pure ling (with +1 though) could defend a standard 4rax stim timing like that.
Leenock could learn a thing or 2 from coca :S
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No creep, no banelings oO
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Man that late baneling nest has bitten Coca in the ass.
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Bomber is my new favorite Terran.
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making marines is a good skill to have
anyways, Zerg should have made a Baneling Nest
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Are you really allowed to diss when you make nothing but marines?
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Wow, that looked insanely hard to stop--but no banelings at all, he deserved it.
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That felt like one massive diss from Bomber rofl xD
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Bomber you sexy son of a bitch. Reaction on zergs face seeing 8 reactor barracks and no banelings nest must have been priceless.
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that was like 6 reactors THERE IS NO WAY he could support that much lol!!
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That was pretty stupid. Only lings and Mutas don't defend against pure Marines on equal bases, oh surprise.
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No banelings or infestors...against marines. Yeah that didn't end well. I don't think any amount of ling/muta would've won against even that amount of marines.
Edit: Normally I think mule disses are lame because they're waaay overused, but pre-emptive disses before you have even engaged is pretty beastly, have to admit.
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yea good creep spread and fast baneling speed would of owned that mass barracks/marine strat
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Banelings infestors would've wrecked that stuff.
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On January 31 2011 19:30 udgnim wrote:
making marines is a good skill to have
anyways, Zerg should have made a Baneling Nest
Yeah I am getting tired of seeing these all marine armies.
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On January 31 2011 19:31 Elwar wrote:
No banelings or infestors...against marines. Yeah that didn't end well. I don't think any amount of ling/muta would've won against even that amount of marines.
Edit: Normally I think mule disses are lame because they're waaay overused, but pre-emptive disses before you have even engaged is pretty beastly, have to admit.
100 muta take that attack ez
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He should have sent his mules on the natural hatches mineral patches. Super diss
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Byun has arrived, and he's pushing up his sleeves!
2 of the best performing terrans in this league facing off vs each other =)
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Byun should look good on Shakuras!
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On January 31 2011 19:33 sob3k wrote:Show nested quote +On January 31 2011 19:31 Elwar wrote:
No banelings or infestors...against marines. Yeah that didn't end well. I don't think any amount of ling/muta would've won against even that amount of marines.
Edit: Normally I think mule disses are lame because they're waaay overused, but pre-emptive disses before you have even engaged is pretty beastly, have to admit. 100 muta take that attack ez
Hyperbole good sir.
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On January 31 2011 19:32 Redox wrote:Show nested quote +On January 31 2011 19:30 udgnim wrote:
making marines is a good skill to have
anyways, Zerg should have made a Baneling Nest Yeah I am getting tired of seeing these all marine armies.
It was the Zerg's fault, Bomber pushed and saw an all zergling defense and said "well, I guess I'll just make marines and kill him."
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You guys don't understand whats going on here. Bomber saw that he went +1 lings to defend the bio ball instead of baneling .. he scanned the main didnt see baneling nest.. so to prove a point to everyone he built 10 reactored barracks..
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The man has some balls. I love it.
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On January 31 2011 19:31 Tosho wrote:
Can two bases really support 10rax reactor mass marines?
Well 2base worth of minerals is about (800x2)+(180xmules) per minute, so assuming he uses all his energy for mulage thats about 1600+540= 2140 minerals per minute.
6 reactors + 2tech lab worth of barracks lets you make about 4per reactor barracks and 2per tech lab barrack per minute. So thats about 28-32 marines per minute max capacity (constant production), that costs about 1500 minerals. So yeah I think he could support it off 2base.
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On January 31 2011 19:35 Dubz wrote:
You guys don't understand whats going on here. Bomber saw that he went +1 lings to defend the bio ball instead of baneling .. he scanned the main didnt see baneling nest.. so to prove a point to everyone he built 10 reactored barracks..
Exactly.
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I sense some Banshees in this match.
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On January 31 2011 19:35 Dubz wrote:
You guys don't understand whats going on here. Bomber saw that he went +1 lings to defend the bio ball instead of baneling .. he scanned the main didnt see baneling nest.. so to prove a point to everyone he built 10 reactored barracks..
Given he opened 1-rax FE into 4-rax on LT nonetheless, I think it was his game plan from the start. Seeing the stim marine micro in the first engagement I reckon he would favour his chances against the usually small amount of banelings zerg has at the time + element of surprise.
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So what happens if a team wins a prize pool? Does it get divided up amongst all the players? Only the players that played? All go to the team owner?
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Bomber expanding and going cloaked banshee? If Byun was an aggressive player he could just kill him right now.
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On January 31 2011 19:36 Entropic wrote:Show nested quote +On January 31 2011 19:31 Tosho wrote:
Can two bases really support 10rax reactor mass marines? Well 2base worth of minerals is about (800x2)+(180xmules) per minute, so assuming he uses all his energy for mulage thats about 1600+540= 2140 minerals per minute. 6 reactors + 2tech lab worth of barracks lets you make about 4per reactor barracks and 2per tech lab barrack per minute. So thats about 28-32 marines per minute max capacity (constant production), that costs about 1500 minerals. So yeah I think he could support it off 2base.
Seems like a close thing, He had 10 rax by my count, 8 with reactors. I guess if he cut all scv production he could do it, ta for the math.
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Byun stimming like a madman.
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He should have just built a 2nd Turret at his natural. It would have been better than losing so many SCVs and Marines. =\
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i think the banshees are frustrating byun.
seems to be falling apart, wasting stims and such
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Yes byun is back in this!
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Yeah if there's anything he should have learned from Top he takes harass really poorly.
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Great medic marine harass from Byun. Bad tank push by Bomber in the middle. Now might push through.
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As much as I want Bomber to kick massive amounts of ass, I think I have to hope Byun pulls this one out so we get more games xD
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Hard to tell who's really ahead. I think Bomber has a slight lead.
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Byun looking in bad shape now.
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Byun is a chronic over-stimmer. I think we need to find him a good rehab. Maybe Dr. Drew. Stimming 50 marines to break destructible rocks when you have 3 medivacs? not the best! also the banshee got all his marines to orange without even firing one shot
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hahahaha bomber just rolling through, dropping a mule even
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SCVs = attempted diss? Or what was that...
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Wow, these games are actually good. Wish there was an English cast for this.
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lol was that a attempted manner cc?
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wait what, was that the final game?
edit: indeed it was
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On January 31 2011 19:55 antzilla wrote:
lol was that a manner attempted cc?
Not just one!
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These TvT's I like.
Very entertaining!
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Byun with some great play there. He just needs to expand more. No excuse to still be on 3 bases at that point.
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Great game, well that was fun, congrats to StarTale!
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So, Bomber is just in total boss mode here. This guy takes absolutely no prisoners and doesn't mind letting you know how badly you just lost. Definitely an ST_Bomber after tonight.
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Nice back and forth TvT. Really reminds me of one of the TvTs that Trump played on Shakuras today.
ST_Bomber looks really solid. It's a shame that he didn't qualify. He's definitely more than enough for Code A.
Also, I think these team games are exactly what SC2 needs to catch up BW's popularity. They add a whole new level of excitement and fun that can't be emulated by the main tournament.
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On January 31 2011 19:59 MrCon wrote:
Who is the MVP ?
Bomber
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On January 31 2011 19:59 MrCon wrote:
Who is the MVP ?
st_bomber
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Sick game, this is looking more and more like Broodwar. What a great map Shakuras is for games, if only the top and bottom expansions were islands rather than narrow hallways connecting the mains I think this would be the bast map in the pool.
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Oh shit. SlayerSAlicia was the one that took out Bomber in the quals.
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What did he just say about SlayerS`Alicia ? :o
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On January 31 2011 20:01 ricerocket wrote:
why's torch on there?
He's part of STARTALE?..
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On January 31 2011 20:00 GP wrote:
Sick game, this is looking more and more like Broodwar. What a great map Shakuras is for games, if only the top and bottom expansions were islands rather than narrow hallways connecting the mains I think this would be the bast map in the pool.
yeah, shakuras is actualy a great map, and not only because most other maps are poor, it's just a great map by itself, imo much better than the 3 maps they added to the pool (those seems great too)
Blizzard should make more maps like this one.
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On January 31 2011 19:58 eviltomahawk wrote:
Nice back and forth TvT. Really reminds me of one of the TvTs that Trump played on Shakuras today.
ST_Bomber looks really solid. It's a shame that he didn't qualify. He's definitely more than enough for Code A.
Also, I think these team games are exactly what SC2 needs to catch up BW's popularity. They add a whole new level of excitement and fun that can't be emulated by the main tournament.
yeah there's something different about team games, just seems like there is greater effort behind winning when it's just not one player fighting for himself/herself but for an entire team. To those saying that they fight for their team even in regular GSL, yes of course they do in a way but still not quite the same thing.
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On January 31 2011 20:01 ricerocket wrote:
why's torch on there?
He has a dual membership in Startale and VT Gaming, and he is training with Startale.
I think it's a temporary arrangement, though he provides a nice foreigner presence.
Nice to see him and JulyZerg standing around in the back like total bosses.
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That was really fun, hopefully they consider providing a little more coverage on the ZOTAC events in the future and not just the finals.
Can't wait for the GSTL now =)
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On January 31 2011 20:02 MrCon wrote:Show nested quote +On January 31 2011 20:00 GP wrote:
Sick game, this is looking more and more like Broodwar. What a great map Shakuras is for games, if only the top and bottom expansions were islands rather than narrow hallways connecting the mains I think this would be the bast map in the pool. yeah, shakuras is actualy a great map, and not only because most other maps are poor, it's just a great map by itself, imo much better than the 3 maps they added to the pool (those seems great too) Blizzard should make more maps like this one.
The only other Blizz map that compares is Zel Naga Caverns, which I think is the best map they've got. Cross positions on Metal and LT aren't this good because everything's funneled into a big somewhat open area in the middle which I think is boring for games, the terrain on Shakuras just suits long multi-front battles so well because of all of the different attack paths and destructible doors (this is how destructible rocks should be placed, not sitting in the thirds and in backdoors to mains). It's really such a fun map.
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Any vods so i can catch what i missed?
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Anyone knows if they made VoD's of the vinals, tried looking in the korean website but... you know, not posible xD
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Zenex's lineup was a complete joke with all those players that they got.
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On January 31 2011 21:09 ICA wrote:
Zenex's lineup was a complete joke with all those players that they got.
Puzzle and Byun are pretty much their two best players. ON had an all-kill and CoCa qualified for Code A. The only other player that comes to mind playing is Kyrix.
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United States7481 Posts
Here's the pic of the winning players on Startale (came with an interview, maybe somebody will translate):
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anyone else think Bomber looks like a younger version of former MBCgame Coach and current TSL manager Lee?
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Are there any VODs of this (fairly reluctant to look through the 20 pages of this thread) ?
Edit: Looks like someone on this page says that you need to be in Korea for VODs and has a link.
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On February 01 2011 05:31 Wolf wrote:
Are there any VODs of this (fairly reluctant to look through the 20 pages of this thread) ?
Edit: Looks like someone on this page says that you need to be in Korea for VODs and has a link.
I need the VODs instantly!!!
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Canada1637 Posts
Awesome series, was fun to watch just so disappointing to see only 5 games but I guess that's how it goes most of the time! I swear they really need to expand Code A or something, so many players deserve to be at least in there =[.
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On February 01 2011 06:27 supersoft wrote:Show nested quote +On February 01 2011 05:31 Wolf wrote:
Are there any VODs of this (fairly reluctant to look through the 20 pages of this thread) ?
Edit: Looks like someone on this page says that you need to be in Korea for VODs and has a link. I need the VODs instantly!!!
Hoping this is allowed since GOM won't be dropping vods for this, but I found this link posted elsewhere: http://www.livestream.com/star2ipnida/video?clipId=pla_10e60c43-38c6-4ed6-95c2-730b14b81216
It does NOT show the first three sets unfortunately, so it's only Bomber's sets against CoCa and Byun + award ceremony. The video is not actually an hour+ length, since there's dead air at the end for a while.
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United States7481 Posts
Yeah, I asked gom if they'd take the Korea-only restriction off the zotac vods and they said no
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Usual site that mirrors the Gisado videos had the Zotac Finals. Linking the downloads in the spoiler.
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On February 01 2011 12:42 Zman wrote:Usual site that mirrors the Gisado videos had the Zotac Finals. Linking the downloads in the spoiler. + Show Spoiler +
where would one find that usual site?
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